He told Plimpton that if he had known what was waiting for him in Kansas, he would have “driven straight on. His record of 23 career grand slams lasted 75 years before it was broken in 2013 by another Yankee, He was a consummate first baseman and hitter who stood out on Yankees dynasty teams with Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey and Babe Ruth, who preceded him in the batting order. Common Knowledge People/Characters Stormé DeLarverie. His identity was not confirmed for weeks, but in time he would become internationally famous as a bold, or very imprudent, figure.Mr. The Great Bambino.
In 1947, he and Robert Capa helped create the photographer-owned cooperative photo agency Magnum.Though he often focused on the human condition in his photographs, Cartier-Besson would often look at his contact sheets or prints upside down to judge the images separate from any social content. About one million people were killed.On Jan. 30, 1948, Gandhi, who remained the strongest advocate for peace, was Gandhi’s death “left all India stunned and bewildered as to the direction that this newly independent nation would take without its ‘Mahatma’ (Great Teacher),” wrote The New York Times. Russert was a prepared and pointed interviewer, whether grilling Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney, John Kerry or Mitt Romney. So the opening line of his autobiography is hardly hyperbolic. “You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”For the nearly 30 years that Adam Yauch’s scratchy voice blared through boomboxes, and later earbuds, he and his hip-hop group, the Beastie Boys, changed the face of music. She was born Lady Diana Spencer, the daughter of an earl, in 1961. When she gave her final concert, at Carnegie Hall in 1991, An inscrutable point in space, which contains all other points simultaneously, inspires a poet, and revenge. A statement from the Bronx LGBTQ Center read, in part, "Often referred to as the 'Rosa Parks' as the gay-rights movement, Stormé was a fierce woman who stood up for our community on countless occasions. It provoked international outrage and pressure on political leaders in the United States. An older man named Ron Franz even offered to adopt him; Mr. McCandless gently turned him down.He never contacted his parents, Walt and Billie McCandless, or his sister, Carine. He was called racial epithets and subjected to other mistreatment.To the dismay of Hitler and the Nazis, Owens went on to win four gold medals — in the long jump, 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash and the 4x100 meter relay — more than any other American track and field athlete in a single Olympic Games. “For professional boxers, the money is a trap. The money always goes into other people’s hands.”While the world was consumed with war in the first half of the 1940s, three men were subsumed with growing unrest across India, with the fates of tens of millions of their compatriots in their hands.This day — a moment, really — in history belongs to these leaders: Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.Indians had struggled for decades to rid themselves of British rule, galvanized by the nonviolent movement led by Gandhi. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers and many others were galvanized to press the fight on the front lines.
“Imagine if he had to fight 15 hard rounds against bad people like me or George Foreman or Joe Frazier or Ken Norton, somebody who would put pressure on him.”Ali said that Stevenson’s passing up such a lucrative payday was a big mistake.“He’s going to fight me, we’re workin’ on it.” Ali said. (That was, somehow, more acceptable to the management. Her whole life, after all, was dedicated to helping others, especially the disenfranchised.Mother Angelica, I would ask, how can we here on earth emulate what you did, even in a smaller way, offering help to others in a world that so desperately needs it?The Sultan of Swat. Earlier in the decade, children in Somalia, Nigeria, Syria and more than a dozen other countries were infected by wild polio virus. The cause of death is currently unknown. It featured “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough,” for which Jackson sang with a flirtatious falsetto.Jackson’s next album was “Thriller,” which was released in 1982 and became the best-selling album of all time. Ayatollah Khomeini felt a holy mission to rid Iran of what he saw as Western corruption and degeneracy and to return the country, under an Islamic theocracy, to religious purity.”Today he is remembered as the Shiite Muslim cleric who, on Feb. 11, 1979, drove Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from the Peacock Throne in founding the world’s first and only Islamic republic governed by a religious political ideology.In Iran he was better known as the Imam Khomeini, an honorific denoting the near-holy status that he continues to have in many parts of Iranian society. )But trouser suits were the dress of choice at the just-concluded Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and wearing them The democratization of fashion? Their marriage was annulled.At the beginning of her senior year of high school in 1996, she released her second album, “One in a Million,” with help from the star producer-songwriter duo Timbaland and Missy Elliot. You’ll meet leaders, inventors, entertainers, artists, novelists and the infamous — each linked in some way to the obituary. “Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”“North Korea can not be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb,” Mr. Clinton replied. Not at all like her stamp. The power of the emotion — and the frenzy whipped up by the tabloid newspapers — all but forced Queen Elizabeth to break with centuries of tradition and protocol and make a public address to the nation. That album sold two million copies.The collaboration with Timbaland took her to new heights in 1998 with “Are You That Somebody,“ recorded for the “Dr. He imparted lessons to her along the way.But her political education went into overdrive when a top army general, Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, overthrew her father and imprisoned him.